creature : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: creature	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for creature
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
creature n a living organism characterized by voluntary movement [syn: animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna] a human being; `wight' is an archaic term Synonym(s): creature, wight a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else Synonym(s): creature, tool, puppet
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Creature \Crea"ture\ (kr?"t?r; 135), n. [F. cr[?]ature, L. creatura. See {Create}.] 1. Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man. He asked water, a creature so common and needful that it was against the law of nature to deny him. --Fuller. God's first creature was light. --Bacon. On earth, join, all ye creatures, to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. --Milton. And most attractive is the fair result Of thought, the creature of a polished mind. --Cowper. 2. A human being, in pity, contempt, or endearment; as, a poor creature; a pretty creature. The world hath not a sweeter creature. --Shak. 3. A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool. A creature of the queen's, Lady Anne Bullen. --Shak. Both Charles himself and his creature, Laud. --Macaulay. 4. A general term among farmers for horses, oxen, etc. {Creature comforts}, those which minister to the comfort of the body.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Creature denotes the whole creation in Rom. 8:39; Col. 1:15; Rev. 5:13; the whole human race in Mark 16:15; Rom. 8:19-22. The living creatures in Ezek. 10:15, 17, are imaginary beings, symbols of the Divine attributes and operations.